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AUGUST 19, 2025
Einstein Graduate Student Awarded Quad Fellowship
Bill Zhu, a second-year Ph.D. student at Einstein, was selected as one of 37 Quad Fellowship recipients in 2025 by the Institute of International Education.
AUGUST 14, 2025
Souraja Kundu, who will join Carnegie Mellon University's Machine Learning Department as a Ph.D. student this fall, has been named a 2025 Quad Fellow.
AUGUST 11, 2025
Duke Graduate Student Selected for Quad Fellowship for STEM Students
Out of nearly 2,000 applicants from Australia, Japan, the U.S., and Southeast Asia, Rafid Shidqi was selected as one of 37 winners of the Quad Fellowship...
AUGUST 7, 2025
Souraja Kundu wins QUAD fellowship
Souraja Kundu, B.Tech student (2021–2025) of the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, has been awarded the 2025 Quad Fellowship, one of the most esteemed international fellowships in STEM.
AUGUST 6, 2025
Congratulations to Keegan Eveland!
Keegan is the recipient of the Institute of International Education (IIE)‘s 2025 Quad Fellowship! This fellowship is awarded to successful scholars with a strong dedication to creating positive social impact through their work.
AUGUST 5, 2025
Physics graduate student, Ritika Sethi, named 2025 Quad Fellow
The Quad Fellowship is pleased to announce that Ritika Sethi from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of 37 students selected as a 2025 Quad Fellow.
JULY 8, 2025
Home to more than half the world’s population and many of its fastest-growing economies, the Indo-Pacific has become a critical driver of global growth and innovation. Recognizing the need for expertise at the intersection of STEM and diplomacy in the region, under the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (commonly referred to as the Quad), the governments of Australia, India, Japan, and the United States launched the Quad Fellowship in 2021 to support early-career scientists and technologists across the Indo-Pacific.
MARCH 3, 2025
"QUAD" is a framework of four countries: Japan, the United States, Australia, and India. The governments of these four countries are working on a program called "Quad Fellowship."
JANUARY 23, 2025
The Quad - An Alignment of Interests
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that much of the history of the 21st century will be written in the Indo-Pacific. On his first day in office, Secretary Rubio met with the foreign ministers of three Indo-Pacific countries, which, along with the United States, make up the Quad – Australia, India and Japan. […]
JANUARY 14, 2025
Quad Fellowship Announces Collaboration with the Government of Japan
IIE is thrilled to announce the expansion of the Quad Fellowship in 2025 to include support to exceptional STEM graduate students from Australia, India, the United States, and Southeast Asian countries pursuing STEM graduate programs based in Japan. Through a collaborative partnership with the Government of Japan, this new initiative will sponsor up to 25 Quad Fellows who will join a larger cross-global 2025 cohort with 25 US-based Fellows. […]
DECEMBER 5, 2024
The 2024 Quad Fellowship Summit: Fostering Global STEM Leadership
Fifty Fellows Visited the White House, U.S. Dept. of State, and Embassy of Australia [...]
JULY 31, 2024
Go Fast Alone, or Go Far Together — the Power of International Education and Collaboration
Inaugural Quad Fellows Xaimarie Hernandez Cruz, Emma Hibbert, Serina Suzuki, and Sathvik Ajay Iyengar share their experiences as Fellows from the first cohort of the Quad Fellowship. The Fellows discuss how their experiences reinforced the value of worldwide collaboration in driving meaningful research and innovation, enabling STEM to transcend borders. […]
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
More US STEM scholarships for Southeast Asia
The Quad Fellowship program for STEM students in Australia, India, Japan and the US was expanded last week to include students from the 10 ASEAN countries […]
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Quad Fellowship for STEM students expanded to Southeast Asia
The expansion was announced at an event at the White House on February 7 to celebrate the success of the inaugural cohort of Quad Fellows who enrolled on the scholarship in 2021 […]
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
A scholarship program that brings foreign graduate students to the United States to study science and technology will be expanded to include students from 10 Southeast Asian countries.